Odense, Denmark - Daily Photo Blog

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

For being apartment complexes, there's a lot of variety in them around here. Whichever horrible 70s style they're done in! (They're much nicer inside). But these ones even have their own little backyard/court yard, which I think is cool.

posted by Erin @ 9:53:00 AM 5 comments

Monday, September 10, 2007

Balcony View (Again)

You can actually see the whole of Odense from our apartment. In the back, you can see the city center with all the church spires, the hospital, the Sonofon satellite dish, the huge shopping mall, parks, schools, main points of interest in and around the city center...

And on the other side of the apartment, looking out the kitchen window, you can even see the bridge from Funen (our island) to Sealand (where Copenhagen is). I can't get a good picture of it, you really can only see it with the naked eye, but I'll keep trying! And let me tell you, it is quite a drive to that bridge so it's amazing we can even see it!!

posted by Erin @ 11:26:00 AM 2 comments

Test

This is a test post. Blogger has not been publishing my last 3 days' worth of entries to my blog.

EDIT: Okay this post showed up. So I'm going to try a real post with a picture now...

posted by Erin @ 11:19:00 AM 0 comments

Sunday, September 9, 2007

I'm not sure what this is to do with Odense (I've been too busy to get out and take photos apart from my balcony and kitchen windows and I fear those are getting repetitive) but it was bought in Odense and I just love them. My Marilyn Monroe place mats! Kind of Warhol style, but not a copy of his famous painting of her.

posted by Erin @ 11:20:00 AM 0 comments

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Night Time at the Apartment

This picture was taken in our apartment before we got our new couches in; it shows Johannes (my boyfriend) laying on the floor in a beanbag watching TV. It was a very "hyggelig" night. I've mentioned the word "hyggelig" before; it's a Danish word which doesn't really have a direct translation to English but it means cozy or somewhere with a nice atmosphere.

posted by Erin @ 9:34:00 AM 0 comments

Friday, September 7, 2007

View From My Kitchen Window

posted by Erin @ 10:56:00 AM 1 comments

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Marilyn Monroe

I love love LOVE these Marilyn Monroe placemats I got a few months ago from Søstrene Grene (that really awesome, cheap shop I keep raving about) and now I actually have a table to put them on! :D

posted by Erin @ 9:31:00 AM 1 comments

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

100th Post!!!

Quite a simple picture but I thought it was perfect to celebrate my 100th post in this blog! I honestly can't believe I made it this far :) Even with a 2 month hiatus!

This is a photo of the sky I took yesterday. The sky was really beautiful yesterday - all day. I took this series of photos:

posted by Erin @ 9:17:00 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Netto Offer

The day before yesterday, Netto (a cheap-y chain of supermarkets, not exclusive to Denmark), had a special offer on... one 1,5 liter of coca cola for only 8 kroner. Those who have a rough idea of prices in Denmark knows everything is VERY expensive, and cola doesn't escape this fact, since all sugar in drinks are taxed here in Denmark. So usually a 1,5 liter bottle costs upwards from 22 kroner - which is around $4 US! A LOT. So whenever we buy a bottle, it's considered a luxury.

This is a picture of all we bought - excluding the 3 we have chilling in the fridge! We're not huge coca cola drinkers (I am more than my boyfriend and even then I only drink diet coke because it's the only taste of all of them I like) but when an offer like this came around, we just had to buy all that. It will last us a very long time!

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Monday, September 3, 2007

View from the Top

This is what I see when I look down from my balcony (we live on the 8th floor). It's a basketball/football/roller blading/skateboarding park for the kids who live in the area. I think it's just such a great idea - apparently the kids do, too!

posted by Erin @ 5:34:00 PM 0 comments

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Born Again!

My apologies for the 2 month hiatus. First I went on a - as I said - MUCH needed holiday in the south of France (my father has a house near Perpignan) and then I was on a hasty apartment search after a bit of a sticky situation at my last residence.

Now all settled into my new apartment, which is just on the outskirts of Odense city center (still in Odense, just not in the heart of the city as I was before), I'll be posting a completely different perspective of Odense.

People in Odense fear coming to where I live now (it's called Vollsmose), because a lot of Muslims live here and people on social benefit. I was always told, from native Danes, with a passing hand gesture and a grimace that this is where all the... other people live.

Instead I have found I am much more happier here than I ever was in the city center. For one, everything is a LOT cheaper and there's a shopping mall right around the corner - two, in fact, the second one being a bit of a bike ride.
Residents smile at me and talk to us whenever we go out of the apartment - hardly the rough lot which was described to me. I never got so much as a glance when I lived in the city center. But that's just my experience. I hope it doesn't put you off coming to visit Odense if you ever plan to - Danes are extremely friendly to tourists.

But anyway, this post was just an update on where I am 'taking' this blog. I'm starting with a picture of my now-5-month-old puppy, Peanut, and my two guinea pigs settling into their new home :)

I hope you are still reading, DP people!

posted by Erin @ 9:42:00 PM 5 comments

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